The drawing shows John Bull looking through a telescope. Napoleon appears as the head of a comet, streaking towards the sun which has the head of George III as its center. A frog climbs up the land mass from which Napoleon was launched.

In 1807, the British were preoccupied with worries about Napoleon invading England. Here the caricaturist discounts that worry when he has John Bull comment that no matter what Napoleon tries in his attempts to defeat England, he will never succeed.

Readers would recognize the comet analogy and perhaps even the term "perihelium" (a mispelling of perihelion, the point of a comet's orbit that comes closest to the sun), since a comet had been visible during the autumn and winter of 1807.

Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2006.